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| 'Dane' who shot police an ‘ISIS soldier’, says Amaq | |
| 2016-09-03 | |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Danish man who shot two police during a drug raid in Copenhagen earlier this week was an ISIS group member, the militant-linked Amaq news outlet said on Friday. “The perpetrator of the attack that targeted the police in Copenhagen is a soldier of the ISIS and carried out the operation in response to calls to target the countries of the coalition,” it said, referring to an international alliance battling ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
The 25-year-old, named by local media as Mesa Hodzic, shot two coppers and a civilian on Wednesday during a routine drug raid, and died Friday of gunshot wounds he sustained during his eventual arrest. Danish police said on Thursday that Hodzic had links to the radical Islamist group Millatu Ibrahim and that he sympathized with IS, but that there was no evidence that extremism had inspired the shooting. Copenhagen police on Friday had no immediate comment on Amaq’s claims. Hodzic shot the coppers, one of whom is at death's door, when they stopped him during a drug raid on the Christiania neighborhood, which was founded by squatting hippies in the 1970s and has a long history of openly trading drugs. He was critically maimed when police opened fire during his arrest early Thursday in a suburban area near Copenhagen’s airport and died the following day. Violent past In addition to three counts of attempted murder, he had faced preliminary charges of possessing a firearm and trafficking 48 kilos (106 pounds) of cannabis, 2.7 kilos of skunk -- a powerful type of marijuana -- and over 1,800 joints. He was described by police as a regular in Christiania, where he reportedly came cycling on Wednesday to collect the day’s takings from a stall in the neighborhood’s infamous open air cannabis market, which is controlled by criminal gangs. The 25-year-old came to Denmark from Bosnia and Herzegovina aged four, and was tossed in the slammer Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! in 2010 along with his father and brother on suspicion of repeatedly stabbing a man with a kitchen knife, but was later freed, according to Danish news agency Ritzau. He had also been arrested on suspicion of committing a violent assault with a knife in 2007. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Not surprising. The Mafia started out as a 'liberation organization." |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-09-03 10:12 |
| #1 ISIS soldier. A mid-level mafioso. Odd. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2016-09-03 04:48 |